[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14530] 856$u URL checker ( check-url.pl ) complains about ftp based URLs

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14530

Kyle M Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Kyle M Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to M. Tompsett from comment #2)
> Actually, couldn't you put an http URL for an ftp proxy into host?
> 
> ./misc/cronjobs/check-url.pl --host=http://this.site.proxies.ftp.requests
> 
> then it would attempt to go to
> http://this.site.proxies.ftp.requests/ftp://whatever/whereever/whatever.foo
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer to see a re-write to allow for other protocols (bring
> back gopher! :) ).
> 
> Because skipping the ftp URLs kind of defeats the purpose of the script
> which is to validate that the URLs exist. This could be a significant
> problem if a large portion of URLs are not http.

That sounds reasonable, but not everyone will want to go to the trouble of
setting that up. As a middle ground, I think adding a --skip-ftp parameter
should suffice.

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